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The once large Markell dairy farm, with its lane to the Ballenger Creek ford of the Monocacy River, served as the primary approach route to the battlefield by Confederate troops during the July 9, 1864 Battle of Monocacy during the American Civil War. [2] The George Markell Farmstead was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...
Founding Farmers is an American upscale-casual restaurant owned by the North Dakota Farmers Union and Farmers Restaurant Group (FRG). The restaurant was founded in 2008 when Farmers Restaurant Group co-owners Dan Simons and Michael Vucurevich partnered up with the North Dakota Farmers Union to open the flagship Founding Farmers on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. [1] Founding Farmers ...
Hopewell is a set of historic homes and farm complexes located at Union Bridge, Carroll County, Maryland, United States. It consists of four related groupings of 19th century farm buildings. The Hopewell complex consists of two historic farms: Hopewell and the smaller F.R. Shriner (Sam's Creek) Farm. [2] Hopewell's two-story main house dates ...
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About one half of the county's farm land was converted to non-farm ownership by the 1960s. [2]: 12 The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission noted a loss of 18,768 acres (75.95 km 2) acres of farm land over an 8-year period in the 1970s, an average of 2,346 acres/year. [2]: 14
Robbins, Michael 1986 The Principio Company : iron-making in colonial Maryland, 1720-1781. Garland, New York; Whitely, William G. 1887 'The Principio Company. A Historical Sketch of the First Iron-Works in Maryland'. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography XI:63-68, 190-198, 288-295. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
In 2007 Maryland native Kevin Plank, CEO of Under Armour apparel company, bought the farm with a long-term plan for a major restoration. [1] Equestrian architect, John Blackburn of Blackburn Architects in Washington, D.C. is renovating the farm that includes a historic 90-stall training barn with a quarter-mile interior track.
Jacob F. Shaffer Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Millers, Carroll County, Maryland. The complex consists of a brick house built in 1854, a rare stone bank barn , a frame summer kitchen, and a frame corn crib.